Notice: session_start(): A session had already been started - ignoring in /var/www/libs/inc/cfa/cfa-search.inc.php on line 919

Notice: Undefined index: dcSecurity in /var/www/libs/inc/cfa/cfa-search.inc.php on line 920

Notice: Undefined index: CFASafeSearch in /var/www/libs/inc/cfa/cfa-search.inc.php on line 925
The James T. Callow Computerized Folkore Archive | University of Detroit Mercy Libraries Back to Top
Top Nav content Site Footer
University Home
James T. Callow Computerized Folklore Archive
search for

Offensive content Filter is ON

A SPIRIT

WHEN I WAS LIVING IN CHICAGO DURING THE 1960S MY BROTHER
HAD PASSED AWAY MAYBE THREE OR FOUR MONTHS BEFORE. ONE
NIGHT I WOKE UP TO GO TO THE BATHROOM AS USUAL, AND WHEN
I LOOKED, MY BROTHER WAS STANDING AT THE FOOT OF MY BED
AND I THOUGHT MY EYES WERE PLAYING TRICKS ON ME, SO I
CLOSED THEM FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN I GOT UP AND WENT
TO THE BATHROOM AND BEFORE I REACHED THE LIGHT SWITCH MY
BROTHER WAS SITTING ON THE CLOTHES HAMPER. WHEN THE
LIGHT WENT ON HE WAS GONE.

Submitter comment: CHICAGO, 1960S

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter

Date learned: 10-30-1971 ; 00001960S

Back to Top